MAGIC KEY FOR ENTERING KNOWLEDGE (PART IV): SUGATAS GONE TO BLISS, THE EMPTY-OF-OTHER (ZHEN-TONG) VIEW. Buddha Nature bliss beyond suffering and clarity awareness-emptiness indivisible union ultimate nature (Thrangu Rinpoche teaching, Day 7)

རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང༌། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང༌། །རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། ། རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན། །Because the perfect buddhas’s kaya is all-pervading,Because reality is undifferentiated,And because they possess the potential,Beings always have the buddha nature. --Maitreya, Sublime Continuum, I, 27 “These explanations are taught in the third turning the wheel of dharma and contain irrefutable statements of the definitive meaning, which explain that Buddha nature… Continue reading MAGIC KEY FOR ENTERING KNOWLEDGE (PART IV): SUGATAS GONE TO BLISS, THE EMPTY-OF-OTHER (ZHEN-TONG) VIEW. Buddha Nature bliss beyond suffering and clarity awareness-emptiness indivisible union ultimate nature (Thrangu Rinpoche teaching, Day 7)

‘AWAKENING WISDOM’ NEW ONLINE COURSE: Read, study and understand the Heart Sutra in Tibetan (September 2023)

Read and Understand the Heart Sutra in Tibetan with Adele Tomlin, scholar-translator and founder of Dakini Translations Ever wanted to read and understand a well-known text in Tibetan? But lack of time and guidance? Well here is your chance! At the beginning of the Autumn season this September 2023, due to requests for Tibetan language… Continue reading ‘AWAKENING WISDOM’ NEW ONLINE COURSE: Read, study and understand the Heart Sutra in Tibetan (September 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7wGBV9s7VI Here is a short meditation on the two views of emptiness developed in Tibetan Buddhism, Empty-of-Self (Rangtong) and Empty-of-Other (Zhentong) which concluded a longer Dharma Talk on the topic for Tricycle Magazine. For the full Dharma Talk, see here. Moving away from the philosophical explanations to a more practical way to experience the… Continue reading New Video: Short Meditation on the Two Views of Emptiness and their relevance to daily life(from Tricycle Dharma Talk: May 2023)

Introduction For the New Moon today, the first day of the sacred month of Saga Dawa tomorrow,and the recent commemoration of Jetsun Tāranātha's passing (May 17th), I am happy to launch and announce a brand-new website and first ever published English translation of the outline/contents of Tāranātha’s Collected Works, see https://taranathascollectedworks.com. To accompany the launch,… Continue reading A SHINING MASS OF DHARMA: The Extraordinary and Vast Collected Works of Jetsun Tāranātha. New website and translation on his Life and Works

As promised, my first Dharma Talk with Tricycle Buddhist Review, on the two views of emptiness, Empty-of-Self (Rang-tong) and Empty-of-Other (Zhen-tong) was published today and can be watched here. The talk is split into six sections and a transcript can be downloaded on the Tricycle website too: 00:00 Introduction 03:36 Great Wisdom Mother symbolism (Yum… Continue reading New Dharma Talk: “A Bird With Two Wings: Flying with the Correct View of Emptiness” by Adele Tomlin (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, May 2023)